Fire-ravaged Southern California faces an “extreme fire risk” Tuesday with the return of powerful Santa Ana winds — which may reach up ... 62 square miles — about three times the size of Manhattan.

The Palisades Fire, the largest and the first to spark, has grown quickly because of the dry and vicious Santa Ana winds after ... about 900 acres smaller than Manhattan. The third largest ...

Firefighters have struggled to contain the blaze because of Santa Ana winds, exceptionally strong, dry gusts named after Southern California’s Santa Ana Canyon and blowing in from the desert.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has deployed fire engines, water-dropping aircraft and hand crews across the region—to ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region ...